Asks Quote by John Stuart Mill

“The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better…

— John Stuart Mill

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

— Bill Vaughan

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

— John Stuart Mill

If you are curious, you won't be satisfied with the "tyranny of custom." People stuck in that rut might say "why?" and the first…

— John Medina

A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

— Michel de Montaigne

Custom is almost a second nature.

— Plutarch

Custom is often only the antiquity of error.

— Cyprian

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us…

— David Hume

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

— Edward Gibbon

“Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we be able to recognize what is customary and, more…

— Vilém Flusser

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

— Arabella Weir